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Example sentences for "cycling"

Lexicographically close words:
cyclers; cycles; cyclic; cyclical; cyclically; cyclist; cyclists; cycloid; cycloidal; cyclometer
  1. A cycling tour is health-giving and enjoyable when gone about rationally and prudently.

  2. Richardson has often called attention to the benefit of cycling in the case of dwellers in towns.

  3. A fillip should be given to the appetite; whenever this is destroyed, and sleeplessness ensues, cycling is being overdone.

  4. The past few seasons have witnessed quite a 'boom' in cycling and a great increase in the number of riders.

  5. Like golf, it has come to stay, although many who take cycling up for amusement will drop it again as they would do anything else.

  6. But it is of a wholesome kind, when kept within limits, and physically, morally, and socially, the benefits that cycling confers on the men of the present day are almost unbounded.

  7. Where the heart is weak, cycling should be left alone.

  8. Will the sport and pastime of cycling ever become aristocratic?

  9. From the great hall the guests came forth to meet us in old English welcome, and, as I descended, Beryl herself, fresh in a pink cotton blouse and short cycling skirt, was the first to take my hand.

  10. The fashion of cycling nowadays relieves a hostess of much responsibility, for on fine days guests can always amuse themselves, providing that the roads are good.

  11. Yet there is nothing more graceful, nor more becoming to a woman than the English cycling skirt when cut by an artist in that form.

  12. An objection sometimes made to cycling is that it is half walking; but in the Highlands you would walk less if you rode a cycle than if you travelled by coach.

  13. After cycling more thousands of miles than we have walked hundreds, we know it to be not mere theorizing when we declare that no comparison between the two methods of travelling is possible.

  14. Instead of cycling in the Park she went to Pembroke Road, according to the report furnished to Renouf, nearly every day.

  15. Just let me pick one extract from a book I wrote last year, describing cycling in connection with my grand tour.

  16. I should dearly like to go on a cycling tour with him to John o' Groat's.

  17. Some cycling verses contributed as a lad to a cycling magazine began his literary career, and for some years he continued to write on what was then a novel sport.

  18. This ride runs close upon 60 miles, and to undertake it the tourist must have been in cycling form for a considerable time.

  19. Sir Charles Barrington, the present baronet, has never yet refused permission to the cycling tourist to view the charming scenery surrounding the Glenstal Castle.

  20. Waterford can be recommended as a cycling centre, as the scenery in many districts of the South-east of Ireland is beautiful in the extreme, and can compare favourably with any in the country, and the roads are first rate.

  21. At the same time, it is all nonsense to say that cycling is not possible in Cornwall.

  22. From a cycling point of view, the roads are perfection, and although dreariness is again the word when a cyclist strives along them in the teeth of a gale, to be blown mile after mile on a cycle with the wind is exhilarating.

  23. I did a total of 45 kms of cycling per day i.

  24. I would have just reached the Centre after cycling in the sun when honey drops would be put in my eyes.

  25. And even as the engine made its first slow movement, there came a rush of heavy feet on the wooden flooring of the booking-office, and two men in motor-cycling rig made a determined dash at the train.

  26. A tall man in motor-cycling overalls, goggles pushed up over his cap, sauntered leisurely past the brake from behind, on its off side.

  27. It came at the end of a few minutes in the shape of a lady in perfect cycling costume, wheeling a machine up the hill towards Jessop's farm.

  28. George then remembered for the first time that he had promised Anna that he would try to pay her a visit some time in the summer on a cycling tour.

  29. Ten or twelve young men who were members of a cycling club sat at some pushed-back tables.

  30. The cycling club whizzed along the street which was quite close to them.

  31. He then cheerily began the conversation with these words: "I suppose you gentlemen are also on a cycling expedition.

  32. He then addressed some questions to George about his new home, and showed a keen interest in the population, the condition of the roads, the popularity of cycling and the surrounding neighbourhood.

  33. It would be easy to multiply extracts, but enough has been said to prove the benefit of tea over alcohol, whether in marching or fighting, cricketing or sculling, cycling or mowing.

  34. My muscles were quivering, and I had that feeling of personal disillusionment that comes at the first fall to the learner of cycling on earth.

  35. If I cause them anxiety at home through being late they will make such a fuss about my cycling in future.

  36. Cycling in its early stages is very thirsty work.

  37. Her cycling took her far afield, and brought many new pleasures into her life.

  38. Prudence confided in him her trouble over the cycling veto, anticipating sympathy, and was disappointed in him because he sided with the family in their objection to her riding.

  39. The curate was cycling from the opposite direction.

  40. Cycling for women was so general until motoring became more popular.

  41. He did not approve of cycling for ladies, he said.

  42. He hung up the receiver, went up to his room and got into cycling kit.

  43. A little later he donned his motor-cycling suit, tip-toed downstairs, noiselessly went out by a back door and was soon trundling his big two-cylinder motorcycle from the garage.

  44. All this had furnished at least variety, and, when it came to automobiling through Britain, it was merely going over well-worn ground that we had known in our cycling days, and usually we went merely where fancy willed.

  45. Members of most cycling touring clubs can arrange for the entry of motor-cycles free of duty.

  46. I wondered what had brought her there, and doubtless she thought I was some cycling fellow who had lost his way.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cycling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.